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Definition of Self-contained

1. Adjective. Constituting a complete and independent unit in and of itself. "The university is like a self-contained city with shops and all amenities"

2. Adjective. In full control of your faculties. "Strong and self-possessed in the face of trouble"

Definition of Self-contained

1. Adjective. Not requiring external or additional support; complete in itself. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-contained

self-concern self-condemnation self-confessed self-confessed(a) self-confidence self-confident self-confidently self-congratulate self-congratulation self-congratulatory

self-conjugate self-conscious self-consciously self-consciousness self-consistent self-contained (current term) self-contemplation self-contempt self-contradiction self-contradictory

self-control self-controlled self-critical self-criticism self-cultivation self-curing resin self-deal self-dealing self-deceit self-deception

Literary usage of Self-contained

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The U. S. Coal Industry, 1970-1990: Two Decades of Change (1994)
"The Lambertsen Amphibious Respiratory Unit (LARU) (Figure 1-7) formed the basis for the establishment of US military self-contained diving (Larson 1959). ..."

2. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1914)
"self-contained portable electric mine ' lamps. HO Swoboda. 11. Sei. Am. S. 77: 373-5. Je. 13, 44. Safety movement. Education, the keynote of safety ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"AERIAL TORPEDOES, the designation given to explosive missiles which are capable of propelling themselves through the air by self-contained forces. ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1887)
"... and in time yielded enormous crops. sides of (he more fertile valleys, and often a dale was "self-contained." The yeomen grew their own food, ..."

5. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"... Canada has finally won for herself the position of a virtually independent nation, self-governed and self-contained except for the form of obtaining the ..."

6. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction: Modern Prose and Poetry by William Shepard Walsh (1914)
"... Richard Grant White and her critics have seen in this charter a portrait of Shakespeare him- If in his self-contained maturity, Romeo represents himself ..."

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